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Poisoned Wells The Dirty Politics of African Oil

Paperback • 2008 • English

Poisoned Wells The Dirty Politics of African Oil

By Nicholas Shaxson

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Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development, but is instead causing violence, poverty, and stagnation. It is also generating vast corruption that reaches deep into American and European economies. In Poisoned Wells, Nicholas Shaxson exposes the root causes of this paradox of poverty fr...Show more

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9780230605329

Publisher

St. Martin's Publishing Group

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Poisoned Wells The Dirty Politics of African Oil

Format

Paperback

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